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Peter Liem found this gem of a video (54 secs). Funny, this is the EXACT SAME way that I open my 1996 Cristal! What a coinkydink! Valentine’s Day grandstanders can really impress with this method of opening–and have two bottles open to boot.

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I guess you might call him a corkslinger? What is it with party tricks that leads people to spend years practicing and developing skills that, let’s face it, are generally pretty useless? Oooh, I just had an idea. I wonder if I could do the same thing with a golf ball and a driver……Great Blog by the way.

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